Gartner’s CFO Podcast

CFOs of top-performing enterprises exhibit specific traits — agreeableness, empowerment, accountability — and take specific actions, such as tying learning and development to strategic objectives. Listen now to discover how you can use these critical traits and actions to achieve positive business outcomes and growth.

In 2024, CFOs will be inundated by difficult challenges that determine success. As guest Marko Horvat explains, “CFOs are being tugged from a million different directions. So how do you allocate your time to make sure you're spending it on the right thing?” 

Listen now to discover how you can improve the financial function, boost growth through productivity and enhance CFO effectiveness across the enterprise as well as additional key priorities in this critical episode of the CFO Podcast.

Marko Horvat is a vice president in Gartner’s Research and Advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation leaders. Marko has been a CFO, controller and head of financial planning and analysis, and led several transformation efforts in many industries, including public, private and nonprofit entities. Marko is a licensed CPA in California, where he resides.

Employees with high levels of digital dexterity are 3.3 times more likely to deliver digital business outcomes than those with moderate digital dexterity. Learn the 5 competencies that matter most for achieving high digital dexterity and the building blocks that form a future-ready culture.

Eighty-eight percent of boards now consider cybersecurity a business issue, not a technology one. To treat cybersecurity as a business investment, CFOs need to know the business value of cybersecurity. Using outcome-driven metrics and the Gartner Cybersecurity Business Value Benchmark, CFOs can make informed investments that balance the need to protect with the need to run their business.

Alexander Bant is the chief of research for CFOs at Gartner, where his business insights are used by 45,000 leaders at a majority of the S&P Global 500. His research teams quantify and share what the top companies and their leaders do differently to maximize their people, processes and technology.

Alex has interviewed more than 3,300 C-level executives and led strategy sessions at more than 250 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Salesforce, General Motors, The Walt Disney Company, Starbucks, Heineken, Deere & Company, Gilead Sciences, BMW, United Airlines, UPS, Philips, American Express, Verizon, Fidelity, McDonald’s, Allstate and L’Oreal. Alex’s data and findings have been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Reuters, The Economist, Businessweek, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, USA Today and more than 75 other media outlets.

Alex holds a degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is an adjunct professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C.

Learn what organizations are currently doing with AI in finance, how it’s unique and plays out differently within the finance function, and its impact on people and skills.

July is the perfect time for CFOs to pause, critically evaluate how the first half of the year went and refocus moving into the rest of the year.

CFOs can no longer treat finance transformations as a side gig. This episode explains why full-time, dedicated finance transformation leaders and teams are necessary for the transformations to succeed.

Geraldine Garaud is a director analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, providing guidance in key areas such as finance strategy, organization design, change management. She also advises clients on effective finance transformation programs. Prior to joining Gartner, she spent 17 years in various finance roles for complex matrix organizations. Outside the U.S., she led finance groups in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. More recently, she advised CFO and finance leadership teams on finance transformation and lean initiatives.

As business leaders look for cuts when trying to contain costs in an uncertain business environment, ensure your organization is not making reflexive labor force reductions that will have detrimental implications in the long run.

Learn four of the biggest topics CFOs are grappling with that Gartner’s CFO & Finance Executive Conference will address on 31 May and 1 June 2023.

Marko Horvat is a vice president in Gartner’s research and advisory practice, specializing in topics most relevant to CFOs and finance transformation leaders. Marko has been a CFO, controller, head of financial planning and analysis and led several transformation efforts in many industries, including public, private and nonprofit entities. Marko is a licensed CPA in California, where he resides.